Posted on 07/22/2009 11:31:22 AM PDT by JoeProBono
BOSTON -- For the second time in less than a week, a family pet has been killed by a coyote in Georgetown.
A Clark Street resident said he saw a coyote come onto his porch on Sunday night and grab his cat, the Newburyport News reported.
Just four days earlier, a Jack Russell terrier was killed by coyotes as its owner walked it in the Georgetown/Rowley State Forest.
In June, a woman reported being surrounded by coyotes while she walked her dogs in the woods of nearby Groveland. She was able to get out of the woods without being harmed.
"Hey lady, you want us to get you over the border
to New Hampshire?? Five hundred bucks, guaranteed."
Kill just one of the coyotes, leave the carcass out for the rest to see and the problem will be solved.
sounds like the divorcees in Boston are getting pretty brazen.
That's wolf behavior.
Eastern Coyote (Canis latrans var.)
CoyoteDescription
Eastern coyotes typically weigh 30-50 pounds and are 48-60 inches long, approximately twice the size of their close relative, the western coyote. Eastern coyotes have long legs, thick fur, a pointy snout, a drooping bushy black-tipped tail and range in color from a silvery gray to a grizzled, brownish red. The average life span of a wild coyote is four years. Though coyotes are often mistaken for a domestic dog hybrid, recent genetic research has attributed the eastern coyote's larger size and unique behavioral characteristics to interbreeding with Canadian gray wolves.link
Will Hyena’s bond to one master like that acting as a protector
That’s interesting - I have seen some up here in Northern Maine that I really thought were wolves, they were so big.
Periodically I hear a bunch of them yipping it up down at the bottom of our field by the pond. Very creepy!
Mrs. V
Bostonians need guns!
My AR-15 would take care of that little problem.
Out walking my dogs last year my beagle mix got her paw trapped in one. After a little "fun" getting her out she limped a little but was okay in a few days.
Good post. Coyotes by their nature tend to be solitary animals. Over the years it has become evident that the “eastern” coyotes you see up here in the Northeast are not the same as their western counterparts.
A neighbor stopped by a couple of weeks ago and told me she watched a coyote kill a baby deer from her deck. These neighbors have no guns. If you love your cat and you live in a rural area, keeping the cat indoors is a necessity. Each of my neighbors who have let their cats roam outside is now (sadly for the cats) minus their cat(s).
I considered that except there are houses on the other side of the bean field. It’s probably no more than 300 yards. A through and through shot might have carried that far.
The coyotes in Pennsylvania are big too. Where I used to live (rural PA) people would shoot them on sight and yet they were still expanding their range. Tough smart animals.
I guess western coyotes are the solitary ones. They always reminded me of large foxes. These eastern ones are I expect a more dangerous critter.
I noticed you have a pic of the New Jersey Crescent wrench hockey team on your page. Hubby bought tickets to see them and the Pens next Dec. Looking forward to it.
A couple hours ago, while standing in my yard, I heard some squealing and some serious movement in the brush above. It got louder and louder. Then a calf elk trotted into the pasture with a coyote by its side, pushing it along. Close by its side, like within arms reach. I shouted at the coyote, and it turned uphill and trotted into the trees above.
The calf elk turned downhill, toward me. We stood for two or three minutes, about 40 feet apart, talking to each other. Well, I talked, and the elk politely listened. Pretty soon, it too turned into the trees and disappeared. I hope it got back with its momma ok. I hope the coyote gets a couple ground squirrels for lunch to make up the lost elk.
I'm not sure what constitutes "Western or large fox" but on one of my pheasant hunting trips to kansas, a coyote the size of a large german shepherd charged out of a plumb thicket at me after being flushed out by my buddy on the other side. For the record, he wasn't charging me because as soon as he saw me standing about 20 feet in front of him he bolted to his left and hightailed it out of there until the sun went down........
Seriously -- your team had an awesome year this past season. Good to see Marian Hossa get his just "reward" for bailing out on them!
Yeah! Kinda like that. Me and my little friend outsmarted Wile E. once again.
No, that’s coyote behavior, too. You’re ambling along in the woods, absent-minded, when all of a sudden the hair on the back of your neck stands straight up, you turn around, and there they are.
Happened to me a couple times.
I just run at them, they disperse.
I hope not! I’m looking for a good close game though with maybe Sidney getting a hat trick and Fleury a shutout. :)
It certainly was a great year to be a Pens fan. Last year I was so mad at Hossa but in reality his dissing of the Pens just made the win that much more fun. He’s probably a really nice guy but it was fun booing him.
Are you with dogs when this happens?
Wolves will defend territory against dogs but I haven’t heard of coyotes doing that.
http://www.nodakoutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23538
about halfway down there is a video.
Interesting, so western coyotes go after dogs too. Well that’s bad. These eastern hybrids have a double dose of aggression towards dogs.
Whoa. You know those things eat lions, right?
It’s good if you are hunting them, they lose their minds over the dogs as well as their caution.
Several years ago, some friends and I were standing on an observation deck looking down on a trail down the hill. On the trail we spotted a coyote loping along. Suddenly he stopped, then stepped off the trail and disappeared in the bushes. A few seconds later, a couple comes walking up the trail, talking between themselves. As soon as they rounded the next bend, the coyote stepped back onto the trail and continued on his way. Those people had no idea they had passed within a few feet of the animal. It was a sobering realization that they can be so close to you.
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